Livia G. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Livia G., who was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1912. She recalls her affluent family; European vacations; celebrating religious holidays with extended family; attending schools in Austria and Switzerland; marriage in 1933; her daughter's birth in 1934; her parents' and brother's emigration to the United States in the late 1930s; increasing anti-Jewish restrictions; her husband's forced service in a Hungarian labor battalion between 1940 and 1942; confiscation of his business; renting rooms to Germans and Austrians; obtaining information about round-ups from her Austrian tenant; his advice that she obtain papers from the Swedish government, which would protect her and her daughter from deportation; deciding not to live in a Swedish safe house; hiding in a rural area with assistance from Hungarian friends; liberation by Soviet troops; performing household chores for the Soviets; returning to their apartment; recovering lost property; a visit from her brother who was in the United States military; receiving assistance from the United States Military Mission in Budapest in 1945; and emigration to the United States. Mrs. G. shows photographs and documents.

2 videocassettes